topic Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS in Libraries & objects

ROOM_POLY_STATUS

JGoode — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:42:20 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to use room_poly_status to determine whether to display something in AC21.

However archicad doesn't seem to recognise it and says that there isn't a parameters called that.

How can I get this to work?

Thanks

Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS

Barry Kelly — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 01:11:14 GMT

ROOM_POLY_STATUS is only available to zone stamps.

Barry.

Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS

JGoode — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:18:53 GMT

Yes, that's what I am making. Am I correct in thinking that this command is the 'Construction Method' of the zone?

Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS

Barry Kelly — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:39:16 GMT

Yes it just determines if it is a manually drawn zone, or auto fill to zone boundaries or auto fill to wall ref lines.

Barry.

Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS

JGoode — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:06:34 GMT

Is it working in AC21? It just seems to return the value of 0 rather than 1 / 2 so I'm unable to use it.

Here is an example of its use:

	if (room_area <> room_net_area) or (room_area <> room_reduced_area) or (room_area <> room_calc_area) or (room_poly_status = 0) then
		stamp_error = 1
	else
		stamp_error = 0
	endif

Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS

Palawat — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:31:48 GMT

In "Zone Selection Settings" under "Name and Positioning", you will see options for "Zone Polygon".

If "Geometry method" is set to "Reference Line" and "Gross" is selected, ROOM_POLY_STATUS returns 2.
If "Geometry method" is set to "Reference Line" and "Net" is selected, ROOM_POLY_STATUS returns 1.
If "Geometry method" is set to "Manual" or "Inner Edge", ROOM_POLY_STATUS returns 0.

Tested with AC21

HTH

Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS

JGoode — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:04:58 GMT

So I've tried this using this code:

	 if ROOM_POLY_STATUS = 0 then text2 0, 2, "0"
	 if ROOM_POLY_STATUS = 1 then text2 0, 2, "1"
	 if ROOM_POLY_STATUS = 2 then text2 0, 2, "2"

and it still doesn't seem to work. Any Ideas?

Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS

Palawat — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:29:41 GMT

I'm afraid I ran out of idea.

Good luck.

Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS

JGoode — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:08:58 GMT

Do you have any example code which you have gotten to work?

Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS

Palawat — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 05:26:32 GMT

Just a simple text2 command.

I created a zone stamp sub-type, create a parameter "room_poly_status" and make it "integer" type.

In 2D script, it's just ;

text2 0, 0, room_poly_status

That's it.

Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS

JGoode — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:08:04 GMT

That did the trick! Thanks.

I didn't create the parameter for it which was the issue!

Re: ROOM_POLY_STATUS

Palawat — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:28:58 GMT

That's strange. I thought ArchiCad would give some kind of error message to let you know about "invalid parameter" if you haven't created it. But anyway, glad it's sorted out.